irrepressibly
Americanadverb
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The book’s title refers to the Soviet agent Oleg Lyalin, a relatively low-level but irrepressibly ambitious KGB operative who defected to Britain in 1971.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Ms Lloyd added that Mr Yousaf was "irrepressibly positive" and had stopped the party's polling decline, adding that that factional fighting in the SNP has calmed down.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2024
He quoted the late Madeleine Albright, who as the irrepressibly activist secretary of State under President Clinton called the United States “the indispensable nation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2023
He’s accomplished this not with virtuosic musical innovation, genre-crossing celebrity collaborations or by hosting a television singing competition, but by cranking out one irrepressibly catchy, widely relatable meat-and-potatoes country anthem after another.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2022
Perotin strikes us, even today, as an irrepressibly adventurous creative force, a firecracker of a composer who conceived and wrote down the most complex simultaneous note clusters that had ever been heard.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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